Wednesday, March 17th 2010
AMD Phenom II X6 Series Clock Speeds Revealed
AMD's much talked about six-core processors, the Phenom II X6 series, consists of three models for what we know in good detail: model numbers 1075T, 1055T, and 1035T at the bottom. But what remained a mystery were their clock speeds. A leak by one of the motherboard manufacturers who recently released supportive BIOS updates reveals the clock speed for the entry-level Phenom II X6 1035T to be 2.60 GHz, that of the 1055T to be 2.80 GHz, and of the high-end 1075T to be 3.00 GHz. As revealed earlier, the 1035T has a TDP of 95W, while the 1055T has both 125W and 95W variants in the making, and the 1075T has a TDP of 125W.
With so many motherboard vendors specifically designing their upcoming products to be ready for "140W TDP", it isn't hard to guess that there could be a higher-end part in the making, which is probably clocked even higher, and comes with the Black Edition branding. All Phenom II X6 processors are based on the "Thuban" core, a port of the Istanbul six-core architecture to the AM3 package. There are six cores with dedicated 512 KB of L2 caches and a shared 6 MB L3 cache (total cache being 9 MB). The new chip will be announced in the weeks to come.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
With so many motherboard vendors specifically designing their upcoming products to be ready for "140W TDP", it isn't hard to guess that there could be a higher-end part in the making, which is probably clocked even higher, and comes with the Black Edition branding. All Phenom II X6 processors are based on the "Thuban" core, a port of the Istanbul six-core architecture to the AM3 package. There are six cores with dedicated 512 KB of L2 caches and a shared 6 MB L3 cache (total cache being 9 MB). The new chip will be announced in the weeks to come.
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"Zosma" 45 nm, Quad-core
Phenom II X4 960T 3.3 GHz 2.4HT 2Mb L2 cache, 6MB L3 cache = 8Mb cache total, 95 TDP AM3 locked 2 cores = Turban X6 variant.
The upcoming X4 and X6 CPU's such as 975 3.6Ghz 125 TDP and dual variants X6 2.8Ghz 1055T at 95 TDP and 125 TDP clearly show as that AMD can produce a X2 - X3 at 4.0 Ghz and X4 at 3.9 Ghz - 4.0 Ghz 140 TDP with upcoming 4th stepping introduced with X6 1035, 1055, 1075 and X4 960T.
www.tweaktown.com/news/14540/phenom_ii_x6_clock_speeds_revealed/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_AMD_microprocessors ;)
what he said
BIOS update will be good to make sure its detected right, but since they havent made any major changes, it should work in any AM3 boards.
This is what I read from it if memory serves me well :D
AM3 CPU's will work on AM2, AM2+ & AM3 mobo's but AM2 & AM2+ may be limited to due to its DDR2 based chipset in terms of tweaking and extra features which the AM3 CPU may have.:eek:
AM3 motherboards will not support AM2 & AM2+ CPU's. :cry:
AM2/2+ CPU's only have DDR2 memory controllers (thus, dont work on AM3 boards)
AM3 CPU's have DDR2 and DDR3 controllers (works everywhere) - however, what if removing those DDR2 controllers cut back power consumption and heat? maybe thats how AMD got the TDP down.
So my guess would be it'll be AM3 and no AM2+
Besides why drag a dead technology anyway
I belive it will. I found this graph over on AMD.
Also according to this it will..Source
So if its based off of the newer Opteron then it should in fact run DDR2.Going from DDR2 to DDR3 on an AMD platform makes very little difference so its not "dead" by any standard of the word.
What's better news is a possible massive price cut on the current Phenom II x4's :D I hear AMD will also be releasing a 3.60 GHz Quad-Core in Q2 2010. (April-May-June).
Phenom II X4 975 3.6 GHz :D
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_AMD_microprocessors#.22Deneb.22_.2845_nm.2C_Quad-core.29
At any rate, these are nice looking clock rates and power figures. Now all we need is a price. If the price is right, I might sell off my QX, and build a six core AMD for a second rig.
Don't get me wrong Intel is all around better But AMD CPU's give a little extra spunk to applications Specially when combined with a nice ATI GFX card
And that's kind of what I meant about ddr2 being...it's dead by cost...and yes ddr3 does make a big difference on AMD systems ahhh to a point LOL
What im realy looking forward to is the 3.6GHz Quad if and when this will come out?